proxy.php is breaking images in posts (even old ones that weren't broken when posted)

This has been going on for a while (I first remember noticing with images Maine Pilot tried to post in February in the Oh... OOHHHH... OH Shoot thread, but I've just noticed it's also messing up an old post of mine where all the images worked fine back when I posted it, and nothing has changed with any of them, but now four of them show up as because of some way proxy.php is screwing up.

For example, in one post, Maine Pilot referred to this GIF image:

Code:

http://www.bedug.com/pics/Fun3/daily_gifdump_1235_11.gif

You can paste that URL into your browser's address bar and see there's no problem with the image. But if you look at his post now, instead of the image, you get , and it's because the image URL has been changed to:

Code:

https://priuschat.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bedug.com%2Fpics%2FFun3%2Fdaily_gifdump_1235_11.gif&hash=c0bab84b9cf7a77c8af670e063f254ad

You can see the correct original URL is there, just with every colon changed to percent-3A and every slash changed to percent-2F, and sure enough, you can chop off the whole prefix up through image= and the whole suffix starting with ampersand-hash, and turn the percent-3As and percent-2Fs back to colons and slashes, and the image loads just fine.

It's not delightful to have to do that, though. Can whatever is wrong with proxy.php be fixed (or, if not, as a radical thought, could it just not be used, since it is breaking people's posts which would not be broken without it)?

-Chap